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UPQTAYLOR. METHOD OF AND MACHINERY FOR TREATING BAGS FOR PAPER STOCK.

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O. P. TAYLOR. METHOD OF AND MACHINERY FOR TREATING mes ]EOB- PAPER STOCK.

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METHOD OF AND MAUHINBEY FOR TREATING BAGS FOR PAPER S,TOGK. No. 292,873. b Patented Febf5, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

cHARLRs F. I TAYLOR, or SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS.

METHOD OF AND MACHINERY FOR TREATING RAGS FOR PAPER-STOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 292,873, dated February 5, 1884.

Application filed March 23, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. TAYLOR, of Springfield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in the Methods, of and Machinery for Treating Bags for Paper- Stock, otherwise termed dressing rags, of which the following is a specification,.reference being had to the accompanying drawmgs.

This invention relates to improvements in methods and apparatus forming the subjectmatter of prior applications filed by me for Letters Patent.

The object of my invention is to simplify and improve or vary the construction of rag cutting and dressing machines, whereby the cost of construction is lessened and the effectiveness of the machine inoreasechand I accomplish these objects by the construction herein shown.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar letters of reference indicate like parts, Figure 1 is a view of the machine as seen Fig. 2 is a view of the same as seen from the front, and Fig. 3 is a top view. 7

The art of preparing rags for paper-stock has been fully set out in the applications heretofore referred to, and is too well known to require further description.

The construction will be readily understood on referring to the drawings.

a represents a feed-apron moving in the direction indicated, upon which the rags are fed and carried to the first cutter or stripper, b, the blades of which out against a fixed knife, 0, and cut the rags into strips, which fall upon the apron 1), which runs in a direction parallel, or nearly so, with the axis of Y the first cutter, the object being to carry and present the strips to the second cutter in the direction of their length, whereby the crosscutting operation may be performed without any intermediate handling. After beingcut, the rags are subjected to a beating or pounding and shaking, as has been fully described in my prior applications. It will be seen that by this construction I am enabled to use two cutters of similar construction and obtain a positive feed, insuring the cross-cutting tobe at right angles, or nearly so, with the strip.

The size to which the material is cut may be varied by varying the speed of either the cutters or the aprons.

Other cutters may be arranged to cut and deposit the material upon the apron 1), thus increasing the capacity of I production.

The cutters may operate in the same frame, or may be entirely separated, the intermediate feed operating in the same manner.

It will be seen that the construction and position of the parts may be greatly varied without departing from the principle of my inven. tion.

By showing various features and not claim ing all in this application, I do not abandon the same, as these features do or will form the subject-matter of other applications.

Having therefore described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is.

1. The method of treating rags for paperstock, consisting of stripping the same by machinery and depositing the strip on a feed, which presents the strips to the cross-cutting device in such manner that they are cut into small pieces, substantially as shown.

2. In a ragdressing machine, two cutting devices having a means of conveying the material from the first to the second, substantially as shown.

3. In a rag-cutting machine, the combination of feed a, cutters b 0, feed and cutters c z, constructed and operating substantially as shown.

4. In a rag-dressing machine, the combination of a stripping device and a cross-cutting device with a feed-apron adapted. to move in a direction parallel with the axis of the stripping-knife, substantially as shown.

5. The combination, in a rag-cutting machine, of a stripping device and cross-cutting device, each consisting of a rotary and fixed blade, a means to feed the material to the cut ting devices, a means to hold the material while being out, and a means to separate foreign matter from the material, all constructed and operating substantially as shown.

CHAS. F. TAYLOR.

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ALLEN WEBsrRR, EDWARD MEAoIrAM. 

